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- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Harold L. Stuart
Following its spin off from N. W. Halsey, Stuart continued his Chicago-based firm’s strong presence in bond issuance, helping raise funds for many industrial conglomerates that, until that time, had always gone to New York for financing.... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Recent HBS Campaign Regional Event & Alumni Gatherings
Nanon de Gaspé Beaubien-Mattrick (MBA 1991), and François de Gaspé Beaubien (MBA 1989). 5 Patrick Goldrick (MBA 2013), Ariel Avila (MBA 2014), and Erin Miller (MBA 2013) at the Chicago Young Alumni Event held in October at the SPiN Ping... View Details
Randall L. Tobias
streamlined its overall operations. He managed costs and divested of non-core businesses, spinning off medical devices to form Guidant Corporation. Through his efforts, Lilly’s market capitalization grew from $14 billion to $70 billion. View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Humor Us
As a Harvard undergraduate and an editor of the Harvard Lampoon, Robert Hoffman (MBA ’72) “helped spin the popular campus humor magazine into an irreverent national institution that skewered American culture and later spawned movies like... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- News
Family Values
After earning his MBA, he transformed an opportunity to spin off the shipyard and manufacturing companies of the New York–based Ogden Corporation into Connell Limited Partnership, growing it into one of the largest privately owned... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Fearless Force for Change
regularly attended indoor cycling sessions at a New York City fitness center. Struck by the lack of research funding for so-called rare cancers, she decided to translate her passion for spinning into a force for change. Cycle for... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
package it in a way that’s consumable?” One easy way to do this: Measure the flashy stuff. A program called Statcast calculates hitters’ launch angles and exit velocities on batted balls, while capturing spin rates for pitchers. Those... View Details
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Competing with the mule - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Production The Worker Chapter Introduction Chapter Images The Audience Bibliography previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 next Competing with the mule ca. 1936 Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company Photographer unknown A newer machine for spinning is the frame... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 29 Nov 2018
- Webinars: Career
The Shiny Penny: How to Maximize the M&A Value of your Company
Angel investor Steve Kirschner explains how to maximize the M&A valuation of your company heading into a private sale.
View Details- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
product development, customer support, and “Eastern Labs”—a new office enclosed by glass walls and located in the middle of Eastern's main lobby. Rivers provides Labs with $4 million annually—1% of gross revenues—to develop new banking technologies, and promises to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
sense of empowerment and spiritual well-being in the minibattles that were fought and won on the "hills" at the gym's spinning studio. Finding that personal source of support and inspiration was essential for Linn's mental and physical... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
manufacturing, announced that Ogden would spin off its shipyard and six manufacturing companies. Bill Connell, then 47, was executive vice president of Ogden, and after seventeen years with the company, he was not willing to accept the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: The Business of Burning Man
After the celebration and playfulness that’s taken place, you end by acknowledging what it is to be human and to let things go.” Participants take a spin on Michael Christian’s Eidolon Panspermia Ostentatia Duodenum (ePOD) at Burning Man... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
counterproductive response in many of us: “If the car is spinning out of control, it grips our jugular of emotion and makes this negative feeling course through our veins. We feel deflated and victimized,” he said. “We look in the mirror... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
there: ransomware, the security of our electric grid, and international espionage, for example. Young has worked in the field from his early-career startup days through posts at AOL, Cisco, and Intel, where he led the 2017 initiative to View Details
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Eshan Tewari | MBA
companies spinning out of labs at MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and Cambridge UK. Working with the team there for a year now has given me a really incredible opportunity to work at the intersection of getting exposed to world class science and... View Details
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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Works, Worcester, Massachusetts. Scooping up loose iron ore, Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., Birmingham, Alabama. By-products coke ovens, Geneva Steel Plant, Geneva, Utah. Spinning wire into suspension cables on Delaware Memorial... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
Digital abandoned plans to spin off the company, Lang resigned. "My vision was to take AltaVista public," she explains. "I don't believe in staying in a job where you can't be passionate about the results." Lang has spent the past year... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians
When you think of kids and music these days, it’s easier to imagine Chopin and Elgar spinning in their graves than getting any airtime. But move over, J.Lo — a classical music radio show, driven by youthful performers and listeners, is... View Details